Vending-machine.



No. 778,815. PATENTED NOV. 1, 1904. M. SIELAFF.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED DBO. s. 1901.

NO MODEL. QSHBETS-BHBET 1.

No. 773,815. I PATENTED NOV. 1, 1904. M. SIBLAFF.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED D110. 6. 1901- N0 MODEL.

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PATENT EETcE.

VENDING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,815, dated November1, 1904.

Application filed December 6, 1901. Serial No. 84,962. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX SIELAFF, a subject.

of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, and a residentof 23Spenerstrasse, Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Vending-Machines, ofwhich the following is an exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in coin-controlled apparatus forselling goods, and more especially to such apparatus in which aslide-bar provided with a plurality of shelves for taking up the goodsto be sold is arranged, which slide-bar after throwing a coin in a slotcan be moved so that another shelf is situated in front of a cut-out inthe casing of the apparatus, so that the goods situated upon this shelfcan be taken off, the movement of the slide-bar being effected by meansof two slides situated one above the other and coupled one to the otherby means of the coin thrown into the apparatus.

My invention has especially for its purpose to provide an arrangement bymeans of which it is attained that the apparatus can be provided with acounter which is not influenced at all by the slide-bar carrying theshelves being shifted back in order to load the shelves again. I attainthis object by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 shows the principal part of the apparatus inits normal position. Fig. 2 is a plan of this part in theposition shownin Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same in another position. Fig. 4is a plan of the same in the position shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a planof the same in the position in which the slide-bar carrying the shelvescan be shifted back in order to load the shelves.

In the drawings, a is a slide carrying-a box 6, provided with a' slot 6for, taking up the coins. Underneath the slide a a second slide d,connected to a bar 0, is situated. The bar 0 may be provided with ahandle or the like by means of which this bar can be drawn forward inthe direction of the arrow. The lower slide (Z is provided with a slotwhich in the normal position of the apparatus is situated underneath theslot 6 of the upper slide Now in case a coin is thrown into the slot 6this coin drops until it is situated upon the plate 6. As may be seenfrom the drawings, the coin g in this position forms a coupling betweenthe lower slide (Z and the upper slide a, so that in case the bar 0 ismoved in the direction of the arrow not only the slide (Z, which isfixed to this bar, but also the upper slide a, follows the movement ofthis bar until the coin g is situated above the slot f. In this momentthe coin can drop through the slot f into the money-box of theapparatus. To the upper slide a a slide it is fixed, which slide can bemoved in the direction rectangular to the direction in which the slide ais movable that is 'to say, in the direction of the arrow it, Figs. 2and 4:. The slide it is provided with a nose 2'. which nose in thenormal position of the slide athat is to say, in the position shown inFig. 1is situated underneath one of the noses in, fixed to a slide-barZ, to which shelves for taking up goods may be fixed in any convenientway. Now in case the slide a is moved in the manner described above thenose 2' will no more besituated underneath the nose 7c, so that theslide-bar Z will move downward on account of its own weight. In order toavoid that the coin g is held fast by the two slides d and at, even incase the coin is situated over the slot f of the plate 6, the front sideof the noses it is made bevel,-as shown in the drawings, so that as soonas the slide (6 is moved so far that the nose c is no more situatedunderneath the flat part of the nose In the slide a is pressed forwardby the bevel-face of the nose 7v shifting the nose 6 forward. In orderto attain that the slidebar Z after each drawing forward of the bar 0moves downward only so far that the following nose It of the slide-baris situated upon the nose z', the following arrangement is pro vided:

The slide it, to which the nose z' is fixed, is provided with abevel-face m. To the slidebar Z noses n are fixed, which noses aresituated so as to'shift the slide h, and herewith the slide a, backwardby sliding along the bevel-face m of the slide it. It is hereby at-

